Presented on February 23, 2011, from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm at the Student Success Center, Clary Theater on the Georgia Tech campus.

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The Georgia Tech Honors Program and College of Sciences welcomed Dr. Erich D. Jarvis, an Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center, who presented a talk on "Brain Evolution: How Birds and Humans Learn to Sing and Talk" as part of its Karlovitz Lecture Series.

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Runtime: 84:58 minutes

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Dr. Jarvis is interested in vocal learning as related to patterns of gene
expression in various areas of the brain, especially in songbirds. He is
currently studying the evolution of vocal communication and the relationships
between songbird vocalizations and human language.